New York City’s Creative Churn: The View From the Dance Floor
Ever wanted to do the Lindy Hop as it was swung at the Savoy Ballroom in the 1930s? To rock your hips through the mambo like dancers at the Palladium…
Museums Focus on the American Revolution Before Its 250th Anniversary
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. What’s all that yelling? It’s hard to make out the words,…
How Hauser & Wirth Took Over N.Y.C.’s Museums This Spring
Earlier this month the Whitney Museum of American Art celebrated the opening of an exhibition by the painter Amy Sherald — Michelle Obama’s official portraitist — with a champagne toast…
Rosa Barba Lights Up MoMA With Her Love of Cinema
Several art forms have been intersecting in Barba’s life since her childhood near Stuttgart, in southern Germany, where she took classes in dance, flute and guitar before settling on cello.…
In Miami, Wynwood Walls Museum Evolves Along With Street Art
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. The real estate developer Tony Goldman was no stranger to transforming…
In Baltimore, Confronting Chaos Through Contemporary Art
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. “What is your wildest dream for our future?” That is the…
In ‘Hmong Capital,’ Refugees’ Stories Are Told in Tapestry
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. Lee Pao Xiong, a Hmong scholar, spread out several tapestries on…
Museums Renovate to Enhance the Experience of Art Through Nature
The pandemic brought those complaints to a head. “We found ourselves to be one of the first cultural spaces in the tristate area to reopen because of our ability to…
A Look Back at the Guerrilla Girls, 40 Years In
This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times. When it comes to artists whose works have a decidedly feminist…
Boston Public Art Triennial Hopes to Offer a New Image of the City
Based on a knockoff of an Indigenous totem pole produced for tourists that the artist chopped like firewood and cast in bronze, the stooped figurative piece appears in the process…
